The ICTMD National Committees of Austria and Türkiye invite you to join them in their first co-hosted symposium.

The meeting will take place in Istanbul at the Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory, BİSED HALL on 12-13 September 2024.

Three Conference Themes:

Research Traditions in Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology in Türkiye and Austria
Which questions, approaches, and methodologies are specific to the history of ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology in Türkiye and/or Austria? How have certain disciplinary traditions been maintained or contested over time? How are these histories related to nation and identity building? How are they connected to disciplinary and institutional structures (such as folk music/dance studies, Universities, Conservatoires, or Archives)? How have these ethnomusicologies been built and sustained within national and international contexts (e.g., through field research, dissemination, and collaborations)? (Some possible topics: histories, nation-building, connections to folk music studies, institutional structures, building and sustaining the field in national and international contexts, changing methodologies, future prospects, etc.)

Sonic and Embodied Empire(s)
How do histories of music and dance and current performances relate to the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian (or other) empires? How are past and contemporary norms and conflicts connected to, rooted in, or resulting from (these) empire(s), and how are they entangled with sound and performance? How are ideas of empire performed through sound and bodies or
through academia? How do they intersect with other structures of power? How are imperial and colonial legacies negotiated within performances, transmission, and (academic) discourses? (Some possible topics: performance connected to Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires as well as other empires, past and contemporary conflicts and their effects of/on/in/through performance, performing empire, performances resulting from empire, empire and/as colonialism, performance post empire, etc.)

Current research
We also invite paper proposals featuring your current ethnomusicological and ethnochoreological research.

To find Call for Papers please click here

To find ICTMD Austria&Turkey Program please click here

To find Book of Abstracts please click here